🗣 "The United States and Russia will be in a hot war"

📹 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reveals that her "biggest concern" is Joe Biden initiating the outbreak of World War 3

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🇷🇺🇸🇦 Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the Kremlin said

▪️The Crown Prince thanked Moscow for supporting Saudi Arabia's request to join BRICS.

▪️The parties noted that the agreements on reducing oil production helped ensure the stability of the global market.

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❗️ The US’ plans to support Ukraine’s military efforts until there are no Ukrainians left will not change the outcome of the special operation, spokesman Peskov said, commenting on Antony Blinken’s visit to Kiev

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📹 Russia's Podnos 82mm Roving Mortar Units in Combat

▪️The tactics of Russian mortars allow for both harassing and targeted suppressive fire. Roving mortars remain undetected by enemy aerial and artillery reconnaissance.

▪️High speed and accuracy in hitting targets are achieved through fire correction by UAV units.

▪️Skillful actions of the military personnel under the guidance of experienced commanders ensure both a high degree of damage and safety of the mortar unit personnel.

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❗️The Ukrainian parliament has approved Rustem Umerov as Ukraine’s new minister of defense

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⚡️ US military test-launches Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile

Earlier, Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder announced the launch of the Minuteman III ICBM, saying that its purpose is to demonstrate the readiness of America’s nuclear forces, as well as national nuclear deterrence forces.

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The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out a group strike with long-range precision weapons against a training base for sabotage groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at night. The facility has been neutralized. The goal of the attack has been achieved.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces have repelled 10 attacks by enemy assault groups in the DPR. The enemy losses were up to 285 Ukrainian servicemen, 1 tank, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 5 motor vehicles, 1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, 1 Rapira gun, and 1 drone control post.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces have repelled one attack by an enemy assault unit in South Donetsk. The enemy losses were over 180 Ukrainian servicemen, 5 tanks, 2 armored fighting vehicles, 2 motor vehicles, 1 Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, 2 Gvozdika self-propelled Howitzers, and one D-20 gun.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces have repelled 4 enemy attacks in the Zaporozhye region. There were no changes in the tactical position of Russian troops. The enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, 1 tank, 2 armored fighting vehicles, 2 pickup trucks, 2 U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems, 3 U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery systems, 1 UK-manufactured FH-70 gun, 2 Msta-B Howitzers, 2 D-30 guns, and 2 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces have improved the tactical situation in the LPR. The enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 motor vehicles, 1 U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and 1 D-30 Howitzer.

▪️The enemy losses were up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, 4 motor vehicles, and 1 Msta-B Howitzer in the Kherson region.

▪️Russia’s air defense facilities have intercepted 12 HIMARS and Uragan rocket-propelled projectiles.

▪️Some 467 airplanes, 248 helicopters, 6,426 unmanned aerial vehicles, 435 air defence missile systems, 11,696 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,148 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,253 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,749 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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Russia's state-owned defense corporation Rostec has supplied the Army with a new batch of modernized BMP-2M IFV containing Russia's"Berezhok" fighting compartments

The Berezhok-equipped IFV-2M has shown its effectiveness in the zone of the special military operation. The troops, who actively use military equipment both day and night, note its high firepower and mobility, Bekhan Ozdoev, the Rostec industrial director of the conventional weapons, ammunition and special chemicals cluster, said.

He recalled that at present teams of the corporation's defense enterprises work in two or three shifts six days a week.

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💬 "When it comes to the drills — of course, it causes concern, especially in the current situation"

🇦🇲🇺🇸 Yerevan’s plans to hold joint Armenian-US military drills causes suspicion, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Moscow will analyze this information and monitor developments

Earlier in the day the Armenian Defense Ministry said that joint military exercises with US "Eagle Partner 2023" will be held in Armenia from September 11-20.

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📹 Russian artillerymen obliterate (0:20) Ukrainian ground recon station in the special military op zone

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🇩🇰🇺🇸 Antony Blinken met with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on his way to Kiev to thank the country for donating F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine

Denmark and the Netherlands will start the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine within the upcoming months, following the appropriate training of pilots in the United States, the Pentagon said in August.

The US will start training Ukrainian pilots on F-16s in October once they complete their English language training in September, according to the Pentagon.

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⚠️ Warning: Disturbing footage

Ukrainian POWs expose the cruelty of their leaders

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One day of the conflict costs Ukraine at least $100 million, former Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov claimed

Kiev needs to supply coal to international markets for five months and 17 days in order to earn the sum necessary to finance just one day of the Ukraine conflict, calculations made by Sputnik have revealed.

Reznikov spoke amid Washington’s ongoing efforts to shore up Kiev as Russia continues its special military operation in Ukraine. Since the start of the operation, the Biden administration has directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support.

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Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy in helping orchestrate the breach of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021

A US broadcaster reported that the sentence is the longest handed down to date in connection with the January 6, 2021, Capitol unrest. Prosecutors sought a 33-year sentence, while the defense team asked for less than 15 years in prison, the report said.

Shortly before the sentence was handed down, 39-year-old Tarrio pleaded for leniency, calling the January 6 events a “national embarrassment,” and apologizing to the police officers who defended the Capitol and the lawmakers who fled the building at the time.

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🗣️ On who’s writing the lines for Zelensky:

“I've never believed Zelensky to be anything more than a very clever actor who's reciting lines that somebody else is writing for him. And I remain convinced of that today as I ever was, and the fact his chief of staff is a TV producer, movie producer only fortifies that belief in my mind. He's delivering lines. He's not making the decisions. The question is, who's writing the lines for him?” Nebojsa Malic, investigative journalist, blogger, and author, told Sputnik.

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